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By Alice Ollstein | May 23, 2018 6:00 am
When the Trump administration set about chipping away at the Affordable Care Act immediately upon taking office, it was widely predicted that the policy changes and outreach cuts would create the biggest hurdles for the groups most likely to vote Democratic including young people, people of color, and the poor. Many months later, new reports on the national uninsured rate suggest the opposite may be true: the Trump administrations health care agenda is whacking red states hardest.
A new report from National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released this week found that while the overall uninsured rate held relatively steady over the course of 2017 the gap between (largely Democratic-controlled) states that expanded Medicaid and the (largely Republican) states that have yet to do so is the widest it has been since the implementation of the ACA. By the end of the Trump administrations first year in power, the uninsured rate in non-expansion states was more than twice the rate in states that accepted federal funding to expand Medicaid under Obamacare.
Because the report only covers the national rate through 2017 and thus does not show the impact of the Trump administrations decision to repeal the individual mandate, allow the sale of skimpy, short-term plans, and give states a green light to implement Medicaid work requirements the disparity is almost certain to get worse.
A report released by the Commonwealth Foundation in early May provides additional evidence that the Trump administrations health care policies and rhetoric are taking a toll on GOP voters. The analysts found that the uninsured rate among adults who identify as Republicans jumped from 7.9 percent in 2016 to 13.9 percent in the first quarter of 2018. The uninsured rate among those who identify as Democrats, on the other hand, held steady at 9.1 percent over that same time period. Southern states, which are largely Republican-controlled, also showed a marked increase in their uninsured rates from 16 percent in 2016 to over 20 percent in early 2018. These states had a higher uninsured rate than states in the Northeast, Midwest, and West.
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Grammy23
(5,807 posts)Looks like their chickens are coming home to roost. Their dumbass true believers will figure it out far too late to save themselves.
Predictions were accurately made about the outcome of the changes but of course, they were not listening or poo pooed the warnings. How bad will things have to get for these sheep to realize they have been duped? I wait patiently (sometimes impatiently) for them to wake up and the blow back to begin. I just hope the electoral system has not been permanently corrupted so even if they TRY to vote them out, it cant be done.
tazkcmo
(7,286 posts)They get all their information from a propaganda Channel that somehow is legally acting to subvert our government.